The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-06-30
SAN FRANCISCO TO ENGLAND.
(Conlinued from Yesterday

fair one; month or so later in the
year the view would be a better one.
Nature was only commencing to put
on her spring garb, when fully
dressed she must indeed look very
beautiful there. New York has
many good hotels, was fortunate
in securing good room at the Muir
ray Hill, very near to the Central
Railway Station. This is a new
hotel with all modern improvements,
an elevator to carry you from floor
to floor, an electric bell to each
room, and every precaution against
fire. 1t is a six-story building,
built of red brick, with an aristo-
cratic clerk and negro porters, whose
chief fault is, they use too much of
funeral gait when on an GRAND.
There is much to see in New York
to stranger; many large and Won
derful buildings; more use is made
of air space in building than in any
other place know of, for there are
edilices Of fourteen stories, rather
high the fourteenth story to count
earthquake shocks in. The elevated
railroad is another wonder, support
ed by iron pillars, it runs along on
a level with the upper-story win
dows of the houses, not very con-
ducive to privacy but 1 was told
that property has not deteriorated
in value on that account, but to the
contrary has increased twenty-five
to thirty percent in value since the
roads have been in operation, the
rapid transit certainly great boon
to New York workers, enabling them
as it were to go to and from their
work so quickly. On one of these
roads, running to Harlem, from to
6 r. NJ, one hundred trains are run
carrying people to their homes. l
missed seeing much in New York
that l reserved for my homeward
trip.
Having taken berths on the II. M.
S. S. Euturia, of the Cunard line,
we left the wharf punctually at
1880 A. NJ, on 30th April, amid
the hurrahs, waving Of handker-
chiefs, ETC., Of large and we'll
dressed crowd, assembled TO bid
good bye to friends; two powerful
tugs draw us out into the east river
and left us, and our beautiful vessel
under good head Of steam passed
rapidly down towards the ocean, a
beautiful panorama was opened to
us as we left the great city behind.
Brooklyn bridge, far in the distance,
looking like web in the hazy at
mosphere, the great wharves and
warehouses, hugging, as it were the
rivers edge, while some of the
larger buildings stand prominently
out as land marks. TO the right of
us is the statue of liberty, looking
very large and massive but not so
impressive as l imagined; the atti.
tude looking at it from q distance,
is hardly natural; near view
might possibly dispel this feeling,
but this was my impression. Soon
we left New York and its approaches
behind us, and at $50 =. NJ, left
the pilot and started on our ocean
voyage.
A description of the Eturia may
not be here out of place. Her
length over all is 500 feet, breadth
81 feet 8 inches, gross tonnage
5000 tons. She is entirely built of
steel, and is divided into 10 water
tight compartments, and fitted with
fireproof and waterproof doors,
giving access from one part of the
ship to the other, is registered to
carry LOGO passengers, has l6
boats, 8 of which are lifeboats, the
engines are of IA 900 horse power;
she is the fastest vessel crossing the
Atlantic, one of her late trips being
under six days. Our voyage on this
occasion was delightful one, bless
ed with exceptionally fine weather
with scarcely any wind, a nice COM
pany OF passengers Cover five hun
dred and nearly all first class) the
time passed pleasantly enough in
amusements, reading, conversation,
ETC., pleasant acquaintance that are
parted from with regret are often
made on such trip as this. The
Friday evening before arrival in
Liverpool concert in aid of two
seamen charities in New York and
Liverpool, was given on board and
netted over 5000; the music and
singing were exceptionally good and
were rare treat to all. Queens
town harbor was reached on Satur.
day morning, May 9TH. Holyhead
was passed in the afternoon, and al
7p. NJ, we were outside the bar Of
the Mersey, where two steam tenders
were awaiting us, into which witt
our baggage we were transferred
and landed on the landing stage a